I can't really say if it's plagiarism unless I saw the context of her paper. I've written papers that likely look like source material before, but it hasn't been plagiarism but rather the wording is obvious. An example:
I'm writing a paper on the Third Reich for a European history class. Obviously some of this report will be done on the history of Adolph Hitler (Godwin!).
I write:
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Adolph Hitler was born in Adolf Hitler was born at the Gasthof zum Pommer, an inn in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, on 20 April 1889.
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This is written without even consulting Wikipedia, from another source, but it's a very common and reasonable way to state where Hitler was born. If I happen to write a sentence on my own that's very similar or the same as a sentence from elsewhere, am I truly guilty of plagiarism?