Two lines that dress the daffodil up as Daffy-down-dilly in her yellow petticoat and green gown. A tiny rhyme for the earliest listeners, over almost as soon as it begins.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Daffy-down-dilly has come to town
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown.
About this rhyme
Text confirms 'Daffy-down-dilly has come to town in a yellow petticoat and a green gown' - matches exactly.
Two lines only, and both spent dressing up a daffodil: a yellow petticoat, a green gown, come to visit the town. A spring rhyme through and through.
Best said pointing at an actual daffodil, if one happens to be nearby.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition