Roud 2103. See Opie, Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes no. 322 for reference to an example of 1784 (Gammer Gurton's Garland), beginning

A man of words and not of deeds
Is like a garden full of weeds

... which couplet was known proverbially at least as early as 1659 (and see Kytrad's post above).

DT: SANDIE TOY

The Clanceys probably recorded an arrangement of a Scottish set (see DT above); the song/rhyme was equally known in England, and Roud also lists American examples.