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Most worthy of praise were the virtuous ways / Of Little Red Riding Hood's ma, / And no one was ever more cautious and clever / Than Little Red Riding Hood's pa. / They never misled, for they meant what they said, / And frequently said what they meant: / They were careful to show her the way she should go, / And the way that they showed her, she went. / For obedience she was effusively thanked, / And for anything else she was carefully spanked.
It thus isn't strange that Red Riding Hood's range / Of virtues so steadily grew, / That soon she won prizes of different sizes, / And golden enconiums, too. / As a general rule she was head of her school, / And at six was so notably smart / That they gave her a check for reciting The Wreck / Of the Hesperus wholly by heart. / And you all will applaud her the more, I am sure, / When I add that the money she gave to the poor.