I've usually heard/said it as 1. Make it 2. Make it work 3. Make it work better (different circumstances have different nuances about what "better" mean

I've usually heard/said it as 1. Make it 2. Make it work 3. Make it work better (different circumstances have different nuances about what "better" means, it isn't always performance optimization; some do substitute "faster" for "better" here, but I think it loses generality then).