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means An old-fashioned term of approval, or a title once used before a married woman's name — like 'Mrs.' for the modest classes — now mostly surviving in 'goody two-shoes.'

from 'Goody' started as a shortening of 'goodwife,' a polite title for a married woman of humble rank (paired with 'goodman' for her husband), common in English from around the 1500s-1600s. The exclamatory 'goody!' meaning 'hooray' grew up separately, simply as a playful stretch of 'good.' The two senses collided memorably in 'Goody Two-Shoes,' the title of an old children's tale about a poor girl thrilled to own a pair of shoes — her name later curdling into the modern jab at insufferable virtue.