 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 872 pages
...a more enchanting little sinner than Marjorie, who would have been among the first to allow that ' when she was good she was very, very good, and when she was bad she was horrid.' Witty, wilful, sensitive, consumed by that ' wild hunger to be beloved ' — never did death summon... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1877 - 304 pages
...it. Doesn't congregational singing remind yon of those famous lines concerning the little girl who, " When she was good, she was very, very good, And when she was bad, she was horrid." The sermon was lost that day. The people went home to their dinners dissatisfied, and hoped it wouldn't... | |
 | R. H. Andrews - 1913 - 436 pages
...past. "There was a little girl, And she had a little curl, And it hung right down on her forehead; When she was good She was very, very good, And when she was bad — she was careful." If our "bad girls" who, like the poor, are always with us, would only be real careful, it... | |
 | 1888 - 756 pages
...controversies. An alliterative phrase is like the girl of the nursery rhyme, who, " When she was good, was very, very good, and when she was bad she was horrid." Yet a phrase that captures the public mind and ear is often more than half a battle " Fifty-four-forty,... | |
 | Melville De Lancey Landon - 1890 - 786 pages
..."Rose velt: There was a little girl, and she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good, she was very, very good. And when she was bad, she was horrid. SWING, COLLYEE, JONES, FITZ HUGH LEE. There is no one so easily shocked by an oath, or even an irreligious... | |
 | Church congress - 1891 - 438 pages
...harsh. In brief, this Gregorian music resembles the young lady who wore a little curl on her forehead. When she was good she was very, very good, and when she was bad she was " "orrid." Let us have elaborate music occasionally when it can be had in perfection, but, as a rule,... | |
 | Melville De Lancey Landon - 1893 - 618 pages
...Kosevelt : There was a little girl, and she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And when she was good, she was very, very good, And when she was bad, she was horrid. SWING, COLLYER, JONES, FITZ HUGH LEE. There is no one so easily shocked by an oath, or even an irreligious... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1908 - 594 pages
...Belle Lucrative reminds one of "the little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead, when she was good she was very, very good and when she was bad she was horrid;" they may be dvlicious and of fine flavor, but they may be absolutely flavorless, hardly even sweet.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - 1908 - 574 pages
...Belle Lucrative reminds one of ''the little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead, when she was good she was very, very good and when she was bad she was horrid;1' they may be dvlicious and of fine flavor, but they may be absolutely flavorless, hardly even... | |
 | 1897 - 1178 pages
...was a utile frirl who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead : When she was Kood, ehe was very, very good : And when she was bad, she was horrid." The last evening at Sivas passed very pleasantly. Belle and Daisy, my host's little daughters, were... | |
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THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL 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, And when she was bad she was horrid. 
