A limerick-shaped rhyme about a dance teacher whose stiff pupils get sent packing. Short, silly, and satisfying to say fast.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
There came an old woman from France
Who taught grown-up children to dance;
But they were so stiff,
She sent them home in a sniff,
This sprightly old woman from France.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition