Steady-state concentrations of electronically excited CH(A(2)Delta) and OH(A(2)Sigma(+)) are extracted from previous quantitative measurements of optical emission from an axisymmetric laminar diffusion flame [K. T. Walsh, M. B. Long, M. A. Tanoff, and M. D. Smooke, Twenty-Seventh Symposium (International) on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, 1998, pp. 615-623]. The flame is modeled with a two-dimensional transport and detailed chemistry explicitly augmented with the reactive, radiative, and energy transfer collisional processes to produce and remove electronically excited CH(A) and OH(A). Computations predict concentrations of CH(A) and OH(A) which agree with the measurement within a factor of 6 or better, a significant improvement compared to the earlier report.