Forgotten passcode and recovery mode not worked?

My sister was using my iphone for games and somehow made a passcode, she doesnt know what she did to do this and now we cant get into the phone, we tried with recovery mode and it seemed to do the trick until it finished and then returned back to the passcode screen. help me please!

Then you never really got into recovery mode, it can take several attempts. Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808
Or, login to iCloud.com from any computer, locate the phone, then erase it.

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