diff --git a/Lib/html/parser.py b/Lib/html/parser.py
index 13c95c34e505c8..34000538252dd1 100644
--- a/Lib/html/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/html/parser.py
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ def goahead(self, end):
                 assert 0, "interesting.search() lied"
         # end while
         if end and i < n and not self.cdata_elem:
-            if self.convert_charrefs and not self.cdata_elem:
+            if self.convert_charrefs:
                 self.handle_data(unescape(rawdata[i:n]))
             else:
                 self.handle_data(rawdata[i:n])