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There was a little girl / Who had a little curl

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  1. 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.'

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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.

From Project Gutenberg