When She Was Good
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| When She Was Good | |
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| Author(s) | Philip Roth |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | 1967 |
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| Pages | 320 (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0679759255 |
| OCLC Number | 31045007 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 20 |
| LC Classification | PS3568.O855 W46 1995 |
When She Was Good (1967) is Philip Roth's only novel with a female protagonist, Lucy Nelson. It derives its title from a line in a nursery rhyme composed by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And when she was good,
She was very, very good
But when she was bad she was horrid.
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