upsies and downsies

— Now the program had started. Dee Delight was introducing her. “…such a great, great privilege to be allowed to introduce, in her great hour of well-deserved glory, this beloved old friend. I have seen her through lean years and fat, through sunshine and tears, through upsies and downsies – as Opal herself might say – and I want to say to all the world that no matter what was happening to her she has always been first and foremost a mother.[…]”