Children's picture book where a girl outsmarts a trickster spirit

I can't remember what the creature was, but it was some sort of evil/trickster spirit or monster. There were several setups it tried to trick the girl with. One of them involved washing laundry. I think one involved a bridge. At the end of the book, the girl tricks the spirit into turning into a fly, and getting stuck in a container of honey or syrup.

The setting was somewhere swampy.