I NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE AUTHOR OF A NURSERY RHYME WHICH
BEGINS WITH "THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL WHO HAD A LITTLE CURL "

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The title of the nursery rhyme is "there was a Little Girl"and the
name of the author was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The whole poem could be found below.

Title: There Was a Little Girl
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was a little girl, 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. 

Sources:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/835.html

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow_twalg.html

http://dqs.worldatwar.org/robots/928.html

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