I found this poem in the Random House Book of Poetry for Children today while looking for poems for school. I like especially the part of when I'm getting old, at twenty-eight or nine--I guess I am past due to go to the orphanage...

If No One Ever Marries Me (1897) by Laurence Alma-Tadema

If no-one ever marries me--

And I don't see why they should,

For nurse says I am not pretty

And I'm seldom very good--

If no one ever marries me

I shan't mind very much;

I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,

And a little rabbit-hutch;

I shall have a cottage near a wood,

And a pony all my own,

And a little lamb, quite clean and tame,

That I can take to town;

And when I'm getting really old, 

At twenty-eight or nine--

I shall buy a little orphan girl

And bring her up as mine.