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The repetition of the word "she" indicates that there is just one person involved here, so "she" needs to be maintained throughout the sentence in order to have pronoun agreement in number. If other sentences indicated that there were other people traveling with the woman, then, in certain cases, "they" could be correct.

She knew that she was lost when she took that last left turn.

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