The (almost really) Complete Works of Lewis Carroll

Maidens, if a maid you meet

Source: inscribed into a book for Miss Margaret Dymes, 1877

Maidens, if a maid you meet
Always free from pout and pet,
Ready smile and temper sweet,
Greet my little Margaret.
And if loved by all she be
Rightly, not a pampered pet,
Easily you then may see
’Tis my little Margaret.