Not in order in Hash output

truthseeker66 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When I run this script why do I get the keys and values not in order?
Thank you,

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my%hash1 = ("a",1,"b",2,"c",3,"d",4);
while (my@values = each(%hash1)){
    print "The key/value pair is @values \n";
    }
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C:\JPARK\JPERL>test.pl
The key/value pair is c 3
The key/value pair is a 1
The key/value pair is b 2
The key/value pair is d 4

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