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JEMIMA (2) by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL, WHO HAD A LITTLE CURL"
Last Line: "AND SPANKED HER, MOST EMPHATIC"
Subject(s): GIRLS;PUNISHMENT;
THERE was a little girl, who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead,
And when she was good she was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

She stood on her head, on her little truckle-bed,
With nobody by for to hinder;
She screamed and she squalled, she yelled and she bawled,
And drummed her little heels against the winder.

Her mother heard the noise, and thought it was the boys
Playing in the empty attic,
She rushed upstairs, and caught her unawares,
And spanked her, most emphatic.



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