There is really no hard, golden rule here. Typically, you want to make a page load with as few HTTP requests as possible. However the Ultimate goal is to make a page load as fast as possible.
While reducing request count is key, it is not the only factor. For example, if you had a page with one 100k js file, no css, no images, no other requests. That page will load more quickly in most modern browsers if the page had 4 25k js requests because the 4 requests can be parallelized accross 4 connections.
However, your typical web page has 30 to 100 requests and these will load much faster by combining files because most browsers are limited to 6 connections per host and there is latency involved in opening new connections as well as blocking issues with javascript and css depending on browser type where no other connections will be initiated until the js or css is loaded. This can also depend on if these resources are in the head or not.
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