"If you want your children to be intelligent read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent read them more fairy tales." Albert Einstein

In 1837, Robert Southey published "The Story of the Three Bears" in his collection of essays and miscellanea entitled The Doctor. The tale was not an original creation by Southey, but was a retelling of a story that had long been in circulation. Southey had been telling the story to others as early as September 1813, and in 1831 Eleanor Mure versified the tale as a birthday gift for her nephew Horace Broke.

Southey and Mure differ in details. Southey's bears have porridge, but Mure's have milk; Southey's old woman has no motive for entering the house, but Mure's old woman is piqued when her courtesy visit is rebuffed; Southey's old woman runs away when discovered, but Mure's old woman is impaled on the steeple of St Paul's Cathedral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears