What is the best way to call an employee out on an error (to avoid it happening again) but avoid inefficient dwelling on it?

Yes, i tried to keep it short , but not TOO Short because maybe she misinterprets that as anger. but my whole thing is being efficient. The only thing i get annoyed about is that this is time consuming and it looks very unprofessional and when my name is on it, it's embarrassing. I just don't want her to keep making the mistakes and I hate to say it, to be honest, I really am not all that interested nor do I care for her long text-explanation. Then for her to have the gall to react sassily and rude to the next issue that wasn't even an error. It was clear she was interpreting it as me complaining, but instead of responding in a way of finding out what my preference is, she reacts in a rude way. That I didn't care for.

Part of me is just not interested in getting into this sort of thing with someone. I really just want there to be fewer mistakes and for her to pay more attention and if she doesnt understand something, just ask me or check with me. it's really simple. I don't need profuse apologies over every LITTLE thing (and this really was little.. i honestly dont know why she was making such a huge deal out of it...i wasn't. I think just me sAYING something ... "you sent this to the wrong person" ... that spiraled out of control into her making a huge deal over it.

anyways thanks

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