Goody.

A depreciative, meaning weakly moral and religious. In French, bon homme is used in a similar way.

“No doubt, if a Cæsar or a Napoleon comes before some man of weak will … especially if he be a goody man, [he] will quail.”—J. Cook: Coo-science. lecture iv. p. 49.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Goods
Goodfellow (Robin)
Goodluck’s Close (Norfolk)
Goodman
Goodman, or St. Gutman
Goodman of Ballengeich
Goodman’s Croft
Goodman’s Fields
Goodwin Sands
Goodwood Races
Goody
Goody
Goody Blake
Goody Two-Shoes
Goody-goody
Goose
Goose and Gridiron
Goose at Michaelmas
Gooseberry
Gooseberry Fool
Gooseberry Picker (A)