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I'm a bit sad nobody thought to use MapIndexed[]:

MapIndexed[With[{k = #2[[1]]}, If[Mod[k, 3] == 1, "string" <> ToString[k], #]] &,
           Range[9]]
   {"string1", 2, 3, "string4", 5, 6, "string7", 8, 9}