[835] There Was a Little Girl
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Having known and loved and quoted and parodied this little verselet for most
of my life, it came as quite a surprise to see that it was written not by
that most prolific duo, Anon. and Trad., but by the decidedly nonymous
Longfellow.
At least I'm not alone in making the mistake - from the UToronto site:
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"
-- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/longfe34.html
Note, too that the penultimate line is more commonly misquoted "She was
very, very good".
Biography:
http://ikarus.pclab-phil.uni-kiel.de/daten/anglist/PoetryProject/longfellow.htm
Links:
All the Longfellow poems on Minstrels:
Poem #172 'Paul Revere's Ride'
Poem #362 'Hiawatha's Departure'
Poem #629 'The Slave's Dream'
Poem #717 'The Wreck of the Hesperus'
Plus a couple of Longfellow parodies:
Poem #559 George A. Strong, 'The Modern Hiawatha'
Poem #561 Anon., 'The Metre Columbian'
-martin
From: Julian Tepper <jutepper@>
I prefer, to the girl with the curl, the West that was best, the one who,
when she was bad, was better.
Julian Tepper
From: "jane gigi anderson" <gigi_jane@>
This was one of my late Mother's favorite poems. My dad and I were trying to remember the rest of the poem today. He was born in 1913. We could only remember the following lines in addition to the one's you already recited......
She screamed and she squalled
and she yelled and she bawled
And she drummed her little heels against the window.
Her Mother heard the noise
and thought it was the boys,
Playing in the empty attic....
So she went upstairs
and caught her unaware,
and spanked her most emphatic!
If you have any idea if this is in fact part of the Little Girl with the
Curl...I'd love to know if there are two other lines which precede these. Thanks. Jane AndersonGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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My grandmother cited this poem to me when I was a young child as if I were
the little girl. She also purchased a doll with pigtails and the famous
curl, one hand fisted and the other open, that I still have about 36 years
later.
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From: UShirtThief@
I have no idea how long ago you made the post which I just discovered but...
In looking for this poem, I came across another.... Have you seen this
version? Please forgive me if I've sent this to the wrong party.....
FROM: http://www.collingsm.freeserve.co.uk/f/109.htm
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,
But 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 truckle-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.
From: DKemp12942@
My Daddy taught this to me when I was a about two years old and once stood me
on the stage at a school event and I recited it. That was 77 years ago, but
I never forgot it.
Dorothy Wilson Kempton
From: "Ian Baillieu" <ianbaill@>
I remember long ago hearing a risque parody, the last (6th) line of
which went: 'And when she was bad she was marvellous'.
From: "Nance, Barbara" <Barbara.Nance@>
Does the poem have a second verse? I found another site that did not give
Longfellow credit, and added a second verse.
Thank you.
Barbara B. Nance
Irwin Middle School
Ft. Bragg, NC 28303
From: S & T Whiteside <stwhiteside@>
Hi Jane--Try this: She went to bed / In her little trundle bed / With nobody by for to hinder She screamed.....
Of course, the bed-bed is lame, but that's what MY dad always said. He's 87, can't remember when he didn't know the poem. The rest of us in the family used to tease him when he claimed it was by Longfellow. Dad's laughing last! What other answers have you received?
Hope this is helpful. Sandra
PS When I was a little girl I thought Curlylocks was in her underwear and that her "most emphatic" was a spankable part of her anatomy.
From: LckJun@
Our family rendition goes like this:
There was a little girl who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead'
When she was good she was very,very good
But when she was bad she was horrid.
She stood on her head in her little trundle bed
With nobody by for to hinder
She screamed and she squalled and she yelled and she bawled
As she drummed her little feet against the "winder"(window).
Her mother heard the noise and thought it was the boys
Playing in the empty attic
She ran upstairs and caught her unawares,
And spanked her most emphatic!
Amy From Naples FL U02bfit@
What do you think of our version?