History repeats and repeats and repeats.

Even Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story about him!

The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842:

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,

                                                         He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;

      He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,

                                       And they all liv’d together in a little crooked house.