English poem
Dressed Or Undressed
by Mrs. Turner (1775–1846)
When children are naughty and will not be dress'd, Pray, what do you think is the way? Why, often I really believe it is best To keep them in night-clothes all day!
But then they can have no good breakfast to eat, Nor walk with their Mother or Aunt; At dinner they'll have neither pudding nor meat, Nor anything else that they want.
Then who would be naughty, and sit all the day In night-clothes unfit to be seen? And pray, who would lose all their pudding and play, For not being dress'd neat and clean?