The phrase "ago when she went" is not correct and does not work in written English.
It is an awkward construction that combines two time-related phrases in a way that is not standard.
Example: "It was a long time ago when she went to Paris."
Alternatives: "some time ago" or "a while back."
She met Romans more than 20 years ago when she went to Kentucky to ride.
She first learned there might be a problem several weeks ago, when she went into her local branch to transfer some money into the Marsack account.
She said the growth was discovered months ago when she went to her doctor after forgetting the lyrics to her hit song "Soak Up the Sun" during a performance.
Now 14, Bindi made a sensational return to the world stage a couple of weeks ago when she went on the record to voice her displeasure with the US state department, whose editing of an essay she wrote for Hillary Clinton's e-journal had displeased her very deeply indeed.
Heng Ling Liou had the usual concerns 3 years ago when she went looking for a postdoc: She wanted something new, which would introduce her to new skills and technologies, while building on the theme of her thesis.
Her fascination with armpits started about five years ago when she went looking for a new perfume and realized "the language we have to describe smell is so impoverished that we have to reach for these poetic devices" on fragrance bottles and labels, which tend to traffic in sexual euphemisms and flowery metaphors.
Ms O'Neill, who lost her unborn baby to a rare chromosome disorder a year and a half ago, discovered the page when she went on Facebook to seek support.
Gita was nearing 50 when she went five years ago to that great poacher-free savanna in the sky.
The No1 seed defeated Sharapova in the semi-finals 12 months ago when she went on to lose to Magdalena Rybarikova in the final.
Henin, whose first slam final was at Wimbledon in 2001 when she lost to Venus Williams, believes things began to change three years ago when she went to work on her physical fitness in Florida.
Melissa Morris and Mr. Pérez met three years ago, when she went to Mexico for fieldwork on her doctoral dissertation and he was a graduate student studying an orchid species that grows on oaks.
