"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance but, its origins and meaning are disputed.

The most common modern version is:

:Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
:How does your garden grow?
:With silver bells, and cockle shells,
:And pretty maids all in a row.
A version of the character appears in ''Babes in Toyland.'' After Alan and Jane arrive in Toyland, they find Contrary Mary and Tom-Tom and seek protection from the Master Toymaker, an evil genius who plots with Barnaby to create toys that kill and maim. The demonically possessed dolls turn on the Toymaker, killing him, and Barnaby uses the information to have Alan sentenced to death.

Contrary Mary agrees to marry Barnaby in exchange for Alan's pardon, but after he marries her, Barnaby denounces Alan again. Barnaby dies after drinking a wine glass filled with poison meant for Alan. Tom-Tom reveals that an old law of Toyland permitting marriage between a widow and a condemned man on condition that he supports her may save Alan from the gallows. Alan is now free to marry Contrary Mary.

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.jpg|“Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” illustration from ''The National Nursery Book'', ca. 1870.
Mistress Mary, by F. A. Fraser.jpg|“Mistress Mary,” illustration by F. A. Fraser from ''National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs'', 1872.

All published appearances of the Mary Contrary from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearance are listed below:

*Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744)
*“Mary and Her Garden,” by Eva L. Ogden (Dec. 1882)
*Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
*Denslow's Mother Goose (1902)
*Babes in Toyland (1904)
*The Secret Garden (1911)
*“A Rainy Day,” by Jessie A. Harris and Lillian M. Edmonds (1930)

* Directions for a Mother Goose Party, by George B. Bartlett (1876)
* Babes in Toyland (1903)

*Old MacDonald Had a Farm (1946)

* Four Color #90, 103, 126, 172, 254

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Mary,_Quite_Contrary Wikipedia]
*[http://www.comicvine.com/contrary-mary/4005-52434/ ComicVine]
*[http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0038299/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t67 IMDB]
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