Question: where was goldilocks and the three bears written

title: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
text: The story makes extensive use of the literary rule of three , featuring three chairs , three bowls of porridge , three beds , and the three title characters who live in the house . There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge , sitting in their chairs , and finally , lying in their beds , at which point is the climax of Goldilocks being discovered . This follows three earlier sequences of Goldilocks trying the bowls of porridge , chairs , and beds successively , each time finding the third `` just right '' . Author Christopher Booker characterizes this as the `` dialectical three '' , where `` the first is wrong in one way , the second in another or opposite way , and only the third , in the middle , is just right . '' Booker continues `` This idea that the way forward lies in finding an exact middle path between opposites is of extraordinary importance in storytelling '' . This concept has spread across many other disciplines , particularly developmental psychology , biology , economics and engineering where it is called the `` Goldilocks Principle '' .