She might not recover, after all the stress she has been put thru, and if a plant is recovering don't go and take its leaves out mate, specially at that young age, if she didn't need those leaves to recover she would have just dropped them or simply pulled everything she needed from those leaves, sucking them dry of nutes and pulling all of that energy extracted from lower leaves to invest in the development at the top, she was trying to recover but you took away its snack (the leaves), i wouldn't keep too much hope on that plant but i would give it a try to see if she recovers side by side with a new one, if the new one surpasses this one then u just keep the new one. Meanwhile you are giving this plant a chance to recover.
Stay lit growmie. Buena suerte.