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goody two-shoes





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If she’s a bit of a Goody Two-Shoes, most of us are, like Lovelace, inclined to forgive her.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

One of the other Santas – not one of the Bad Santas, a Good Santa, Goody Two-Shoes Santa, Snitchy Santa – tells management.

From The Guardian • Dec. 17, 2012

She plays a woman not unlike herself, a greeting-card artist seeking to outgrow a Goody Two-Shoes image in her work and life.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I was called a Goody Two-Shoes," he remembers.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I never claimed to be a Goody Two-Shoes.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher




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