Scholten performed the song fifth in a field of eleven entrants, following Monaco's "Mon ami Pierrot" by Jacques Pills and preceding Germany's "Heute Abend wollen wir tanzen geh'n" by Alice and Ellen Kessler.

[6] The song was succeeded as Dutch representative in 1960 by "Wat een geluk" by Rudi Carrell, and as Contest winner by "Tom Pillibi" by Jacqueline Boyer for France.

"Een beetje"'s Eurovision performance was called "excellent" and "surprisingly fresh" in an article published a few days after the contest by Dutch newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad, which added that its mid-show timing, after four entries with six more to go, already showcased it as standing out in the field and predicted to get a decent score.

In addition it opined that the entry's musical director, Dutch conductor Dolf van der Linden, didn't seem very enthusiastic with the melodic execution, by France's RTF orchestra.

[8] Comparing the song to the previous 1956–1958 contests winners, entertainment website Screen Rant reviewed it in 2021 as having "a bit more innocuous" lyrics, reflecting the writers' "inherently self-effacing nature", a "faster pace" music and noting "energy" in Scholten's performance.