well behaved Quotes

“Tommy never bit his nails, and always did what his mother asked. Annika never fussed when she didn’t get her own way, and she was always very properly dressed in freshly ironed cotton.”

″‘Well, dear me, I never thought we would have a penguin for a pet,’ said Mrs. Popper. ‘Still, he behaves pretty well, on the whole, and he is so nice and clean that perhaps he will be a good example to you and the children.‘”

″‘Very often,’ said Dorinda, ‘when we think we are behaving well, some grown-up person says we are really quite bad. It’s difficult to tell which is which.‘”