We originally placed this Nursery Rhyme, "There was a little girl" , in our category 'Lost Lyrics of an Old Nursery Rhyme', thanks to Rilla, one of our visitors.
ORIGINS We have now received information from Susan Witchlet who has told us the following:
"This actually isn't a nursery rhyme. It is a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The line "she was very, very good" should actually be "she was very good indeed". 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" There was a little girl Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history 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! Our grateful thanks go to Susan Witchlet for providing us with the origins of this rhyme Thanks Sue! There was a little girl Nursery Rhyme lyrics, origins and history |