goody-goody

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Goody-goody narrators rarely win our sympathy: they are too perfect to be true, too perfect to be likable.

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2015

“Did you seriously have to call them the minute I left the room? Tell me, was it like a physical impulse? Goody-goody syndrome manifesting itself?”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

The next day when the Crane children were standing in the edge of the pond, a pair of young Gulls flew down near them and screamed out, "Goody-goody!"

From Among the Pond People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham

"Then it is all right," she exclaimed, loud enough for her to hear, "that is, if Miss Goody-goody doesn't feel it her duty to run and tell."

From The Little Colonel's House Party by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)

My respected friend Goody-goody declares the sermon to be 'dreadfully irreverent;' but one needn't mind him.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John