“And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.”

—  Robert Southey, book Goldilocks and the Three Bears

"The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor http://www.edsanders.com/stories/3bears/3bears.htm (1837).

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