Well; it's been REALLY hard to determine how many times 'life' sprang from the primordial goo before it learned that it would have to either be able to reproduce itself or else leap up from the muck to live eternally.
All depends on your definition of "life", but safe to say it never "sprang".
Oozed, swam or crawled, maybe.
Elsie: "...it would have to either be able to reproduce itself or else leap up from the muck to live eternally."
Remember, there is no biological definition of "life" which does not include reproduction.
As for "leap" or "eternally", never happened that we know of.