There Was a Little Girl
In Chapter 7 of The Story Girl, the King children visit Mr. Campbell, a local eccentric, to canvass for money for the school library:
In short, we had the impression that Mr. Campbell resembled the famous little girl with the curl…”When he was good, he was very, very good, and when he was bad he was horrid.” What if this were one of his horrid days?
There Was a Little Girl
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was a little girl,
And she 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.
Source
University of Toronto. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html
