What children's poem contains the lines when she was good she was very very good and when she was bad she was horrid?

Answer 1

THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL

by 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 good indeed,

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.

Answer 2

The lines "when she was good, she was very, very good, but when she was bad, she was horrid" are from the nursery rhyme "There Was a Little Girl" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was first published in 1842.