The Girl Who Is Always Good (poetry)

1878

THE GIRL WHO IS ALWAYS GOOD.

She never sighs;
She never grumbles;
She never cries
When down she tumbles.

She never soils
Her pretty dresses;
She never spoils
Her silken tresses.

With cap on head,
And wee hands folded,
She's put to bed,
And never scolded.

Oh, she's a pearl!
No mischief scheming;
There's such a girl—
Don't think I'm dreaming.

But not to tell,
Her name were folly:
You know her well,
For she's your Dolly!

—George Cooper, in Nursery.