I’m pretty sure I’ve heard thinks like that. Generally it sounds as though you repeat the verb for emphasis, as if to say, you can rest assured that’s the truth.
I’ve come across these passages in Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills. Kipling is reporting the characters’ speech, and in this case I think the repetition is Kipling’s own sarcastic voice. The following is from The Other Man. Schreiderling is an obnoxious man:
[Schreiderling] always prided himself on speaking his mind, did Shreiderling.
He always set great store on speaking his mind, did Shreiderling.
This one is from A Friend’s Friend. Jevon is Kipling’s guest at a ball, and he is hopelessly drunk:
But Jevon wasn’t going; not he. He knew what was good for him, he did; and he wasn’t going to be dictated to by any loconial nigger-driver, he wasn’t; and I was the friend who had formed his infant mind and brought him up to buy Benares brassware and fear God, so I was; and we would have many more blazing good drunks together, so we would;
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