Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men

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Kipling's Six Honest Serving Men is the famous phrase listing the main interrogative words. It comes from four lines of poetry by Rudyard Kipling:

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

These lines comprise part of the epigraph to Kipling's short story, "The Elephant's Child".