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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
goody-goody
    adj 1: affectedly or smugly good or self-righteous
    n 1: a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a
         superior

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Goody \Good"y\, a.
   Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in
   the reduplicated form goody-goody. [Colloq.]
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Goody-goody \Good"y-good`y\, a.
   Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness.
   [Colloq.]
   [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
goody-goody \good"y-good"y\, n.
   A person who is weakly, sentimentally, or affectedly good; a
   goody-goody person; -- sometimes used to refer to person who
   acts with good intentions but who bunglingly does more harm
   than good. The latter may sometimes be deprecatingly referred
   to as a goo-goo. [Colloq.]
   [PJC]

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