There was a little girl
There was a little girl
Original Text
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, Random Memories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922): 15. ND 237 L67A3 Robarts Library.
2 Who had a little curl,
3Right in the middle of her forehead.
4 When she was good,
5 She was very good indeed,
6But when she was bad she was horrid.
Notes
1] Longfellow's second son Ernest says of this poem: "It was while walking up and down with his second daughter, then a baby in his arms, that my father composed and sang to her the well-known lines .... Many people think this a Mother-Goose rhyme, but this is the true version and history" (15-16). Back to Line
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 2000.
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