There Was a Little Girl

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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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There Was a Little Girl
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There was a little girl,
  Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good
She was very very good,
  And when she was bad she was horrid.

One day she went upstairs,
When her parents, unawares,
  In the kitchen were occupied with meals,
And she stood upon her head
In her little trundle-bed,
  And then began hooraying with her heels.

Her mother heard the noise,
And she thought it was the boys
  A-playing at a combat in the attic;
But when she climbed the stair,
And found Jemima there,
  She took and she did spank her most emphatic.