"Softly the evening came /with the sunset/."
"And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid."
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Source: Composed for, and sung to, his second daughter while a babe in arms, c.1850. B. R. Tucker-Macchetta 'The Home Life of Henry W. Longfellow' (1882) ch. 5, also E. W. Longfellow 'Random Memories' (1922) p. 15
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