a nursery rhyme (=an old song or poem for young children). The rhyme begins: Mary had a little lamb,/Its fleece was white as snow;/And everywhere that Mary went/The lamb was sure to go.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
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