“When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There Was a Little Girl http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html
Often misquoted as "When she was good/She was very, very good".
Context: 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.

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