And everything she said was rude:

She sniffed, and sneered, and, what is more,

When very much provoked, she swore!

(I think that I could never care

For any girl who’d learned to swear!)

One day the blonde was striding past

A forest, all alone,

When all at once her eyes she cast

Upon a wrinkled crone,

Who tottered near with shaking knees,