When a twister twisting twists him a twist,
For twisting a twist three twists he must twist;
But if one of the twists untwists from the twist,
The twist untwisting untwists all the twist.
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According to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951), edited by Iona and Peter Opie, this tongue twister was originally French and was translated from the French by Dr. John Wallis for Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae (1674). It was told to him by a Frenchman in 1653. In French it’s called Quand un cordier, cordant, veut corder une corde. Here’s the French version:
Quand un cordier cordant veut corder une corde,
Pour sa corde corder, trois cordons il accorde.
Mais si l’un des cordons de la corde décorde,
Le cordon décordant fait décorder la corde.