Poetry with Longfellow

There was a little girl
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

 

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.

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

I love this poem...it was one of the first I ever learned. I always imagined myself as the girl with the curl.