There was a little girl / Who had a little curl

The first lines of a children's poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
There was a little girl

Who had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead;

And when she was good

She was very, very good,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

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I recited 'Mary,' etc., and another ditty: 'There was a little girl, who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good she was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.'