There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
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Drawing of the Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe by Kronheim, c.1875

William Wallace Denslow's illustration for There Was An Old Woman..., from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose

"There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe" is a popular nursery rhyme. Its title is merely the beginning of the lyrics.

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.

Folding Card, The Old Woman Who Lived in A Shoe, 6 April 1883. Noel Wisdom Chromolithograph Collection, Special Collections Department, The University of South Florida Tampa Library.

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In one of Ann Landers' columns appeared this variation:

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she ran out of names to call her husband.

this is a warning rhyme, so women would not have many children.