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->''Johnny studied Sissy as he smoked an after-supper cigar. He wondered what criterion people used when they applied the tags "good" and "bad" to their fellowmen. Take Sissy. She was bad. But she was good. She was bad where the men were concerned. But she was good because wherever she was, there was life, good, tender, overwhelming, fun-loving and strong-scented life. He hoped that his newly born daughter would be a little like Sissy.''\\
-- ''ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn''

Good girls don't. But she does.

AlwaysFemale due to the DoubleStandard, the Good Bad Girl is less chaste than her fellow female characters. Ever since her figure developed, boys have been making passes at her -- and she's been accepting some. In fact, shockingly, she probably even [[NoGuyWantsToBeChased takes the initiative in going after men]] sometimes. Consequently, she's built up a notorious sexual history around them (which may, however, be exaggerated -- many a Good Bad Girl eventually settles for monogamy rather than [[ReallyGetsAround promiscuity]]).

She (and her most trusting friends) can't understand why people believe that it's bad for a woman to like sex as much as she does. She's not TheVamp, and she's not even a GoldDigger. Sex for her is not just part of her zeal for living but also of a certain benevolent nature which extends to her non-sexual friendships. She tends to feel sorry when a man isn't getting any -- though not necessarily a willing partner for any man: she's unlikely to stray if married to a husband who's good in bed, but if she's unattached, she could fall for her SpearCounterpart, the ChivalrousPervert in a heartbeat.

This kind of Good Bad Girl is very likely to also be a female EthicalSlut with a benevolent ForHappiness morality. However, it could also be so that some part of her believe that SexIsEvil and make her feel guilty about her "immoral" horniness and overcompensate for it a bit.

If the Good Bad Girl actually decides to do for pay what most Good Bad Girls do only for fun, she will become a HookerWithAHeartOfGold. If boys actually want to be with her due to her experience, then it's MyGirlIsASlut.
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!!Examples

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
%%* Many an Anime HardDrinkingPartyGirl:
%%** Misato from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
%%** Ryoko from ''TenchiMuyo''.
%%** Mellisa Mao from ''FullMetalPanic''.
%%** Mitsune "Kitsune" from ''LoveHina''.
%%** Kana from ''Manga/FairyTail''.
%%* Shizuru from ''{{Mai-Otome}}'' is a lesbian variant.
* Rin and Ayane from ''ShuukyuuShoujo'' seem to fit into this. What with them practically jumping the main character as soon as they meet? And Rin's obsession with big boobs? And Ayane having no qualms about going around without panties and getting naked on the road for blackmail?
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
%%* Jenny Sparks from TheAuthority seems to fit the trope.
%%* DependingOnTheWriter, [[SheHulk Jennifer Walters]].
* Starfire in ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' (no, not THAT ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'').
%%* [[MarvelUniverse Black Cat]].
* Zinda "[[{{Blackhawk}} Lady Blackhawk]]" Blake in ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': She hasn't been shown ''doing'' a lot, but she definitely has the attitude: "Kiss 'em and don't miss 'em, I always say."
%%* [[MarvelUniverse Marlo Chandler]], spouse of Rick Jones and former lover of Mister Fixit (aka the Hulk), Moondragon and others.
%%* Casey from StrangersInParadise.
%%* Gina, Brianna, and Genn (until Seance) from ComicBook/GoldDigger.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Creator/MaeWest: ''"When I'm good, I'm good. But when I'm bad, I'm better!"''
* Jae-yeong in ''SamaritanGirl'' by Kim Ki-duk. Although she engages in teenage prostitution, she does so in a surprisingly innocent way, and genuinely cares about her customers (regardless of the fact that they are creeps).
* Sonja in Creator/WoodyAllen's ''LoveAndDeath''.
* Almost every Marlene Dietrich character, even after the actress had been dubbed "the world's most glamorous grandmother".
* [[TheBreakfastClub Allison Reynolds]] ''probably'' isn't this, but [[MyGirlIsASlut likes to tell people she is]].
* Rizzo in ''{{Grease}}''
* Carrie in ''FourWeddingsAndAFuneral''
* Jessica Rabbit in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
-->'''Jessica:''' I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
* The trope namer is 1931's ''The Good Bad Girl'', with [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164883/ Mae Clarke]] as the title character.
* Maria "Masha" Fydornova from ''The Last Station'' living in a Tolstoy-inspired commune where sex is supposed to be forbidden believes in free love and deflowers the would-be CelibateHero, while adhering more to Tolstoy's ideas of non-violence, and is heavily disillusioned when she sees him swat at bugs.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Aunt Sissy from ''ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn''.
* Isadora Wing in Erica Jong's ''FearOfFlying''.
* A girl named Elunud in the Literature/BrotherCadfael mystery (and [[Series/{{Cadfael}} TV episode]]) ''The Raven in the Foregate''. She is also a good example of how such a girl can be exploited.
* Captain Roland, from the ''{{Temeraire}}'' series, is a borderline case, a sort of blurring the lines of this, LadyOfWar, and EternalSexualFreedom, despite being a woman in the early 19th century. It's good to be the captain ([[spoiler:later admiral]]) of one of the most critical dragons to the war effort (who don't accept male captains, hence the extra liberties allowed).
* Zinka in Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''Literature/DeepSecret'' is a nice young woman with quite a few sexual conquests under her belt (and a hobby of selling porn at fan conventions), and is fairly up-front about it all. [[spoiler:She also turns out to be married to the protagonist's brother, so score one more for eventual monogamy.]]
* Caddy from ''Literature/TheSoundAndTheFury'' by William Faulkner is described by the author as the "true hero" of the story despite the fact that she is sexually promiscuous and brings dishonor on her family for having a child out of wedlock. She even agrees to have sex with [[BrotherSisterIncest Quentin]] at one point; although, to be very clear, they do not actually go through with it.
* Admiral Alice Truman from ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' is noted mostly for three things: first, [[TheBrigadier her military genius]], second, her outstanding beauty, and third, her ''energetic'' love life. Her friends often joke that, due to her tendency to surround herself with similarly blonde and blue-eyed ''male'' officers, she is assembling a harem to match her in appearance. She's also a great female example of a ChivalrousPervert.
* Eva Bates in ''FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe''.
* Critics have actually called the heroine of Henry James' novella ''Literature/DaisyMiller'' "a good, bad girl." She was literally chaste, but this was 19th-century Europe, where her habit of flirting and strolling with two men (whom she wasn't married or related to) was absolutely scandalous!
* [[AuthorAppeal A remarkable number]] of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's female protagonists are examples of this trope. In fact, in many of his later works he seems to treat this as the natural and proper state of both males ''and'' females: [[{{Polyamory}} loving as many people as possible in as many ways as possible]]. Notable specific examples include the titular protagonist of ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', Patricia of ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'', Star of ''Literature/GloryRoad'', Maureen Johnson Smith Long of ''Literature/TimeEnoughForLove'', and in fact almost all of [[MartyStu Lazarus Long's]] coterie from that novel onwards.
** Patricia is an interesting case, as it turns out that her religion actually ''requires'' its innermost grade of members to be polyamorous.
* Everyone in ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' (albeit from the perspective of our own culture). Involvement in not only sex but ''public'' sex, in the ''Orgy Porgy'' is compulsory, as is sterilization or contraception. (Babies are produced entirely via [[DesignerBabies ectogenesis]])
* The Wife of Bath in ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', although she (says she) only has sex in marriage, and only marries when she's been widowed; she's had five husbands so far and has an eye out for number six on the road to Canterbury. Her prologue is a ringing defence of women's sexuality against the ideal of chastity, saying that genitals are there to be used and that not everyone is meant to be pure white flour, there's a place for "hot barley bread."
* Julia from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. She had her first affair at the age of sixteen with a sixty-year-old man, and went on to have multiple others. It's not just Miniluv who like to [[DoubleEntendre do it to Julia]]. Of course she can't be open about this, partly because she's ostensibly a member of the Junior Anti-Sex League, partly because living unconventionally in a totalitarian PoliceState is inherently unsafe.
* [[BlitheSpirit Caitlín Mulryan]], of PoulAnderson's ''The Avatar'', states rather flippantly that she's only had about twenty lovers since losing her virginity at sixteen (she's thirty-four at the time). While this averages out to a little over one a year, keep in mind that ''The Avatar'' was published at at time when {{Double Standard}}s were even more prevalent. Caitlín is nonetheless presented in an [[ChaoticGood entirely positive light]]. [[spoiler:In fact, as it turns out, her consciousness was engineered by SufficientlyAdvancedAliens in the hope that she would eventually AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. (She [[ScrewDestiny chooses not to]].)]]
* Snow White from Literature/ThePrincessSeries will risk her life for her friends and flirts with anything male, human or not. Implied to do more then flirt but it's never shown.
* Dagny Taggart from ''AtlasShrugged'' doesn't have a world-beating sex drive, but she shamelessly enjoys the sex she does have and has sex because she wants to have sex.
* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' Nanny Ogg was one of these in her youth, and has grown up to be a proper DirtyOldWoman. When another witch calls her a "strumpet", Tiffany Aching looks the word up...and concludes that a "woman of easy virtue" must be one who finds virtue easy, and someone who is "no better than she should be" must always be just good ''enough''.
* Naoko Kamikishiro of the light novel [[BoogiepopSeries Boogiepop and Others]] claims she is in love with a first year student, whom she asks out at least twice; despite this, she has no qualms about sleeping around with other men, having something of a "share the love" mentality. She also [[spoiler:hides and protects Echoes, whom she is ALSO in love with, consequently saving the entire planet from destruction at the hands of God/aliens/whatever.]]
* While Jenny really is this (and proudly) in ''Literature/TheTruthOfRockAndRoll'', her reputation for promiscuity dates from before she ever had sex with anyone. Her family already had a bad reputation because "her father was a drunk who couldn't keep a job and her mother was a drunk who couldn't keep a house", and they didn't notice she needed new clothes when she started developing early. When she refused to hide her figure, she was deemed The School Slut and would have been so if she'd stayed a virgin.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Sage from LincolnHeights
* Roz from ''{{Frasier}}'' has elements of this.
* Sally and Mary from ''[[ThirdRockFromTheSun 3rd Rock from the Sun]]''.
** And Mrs. Dubcek and Vicki.
* Jenny Piccalo from ''HappyDays.''
* Angela Montenegro from ''{{Bones}}'' hits just about every note of this Trope.
* Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' is the DistaffCounterpart to her [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaClassic original, womanizing namesake]].
* Faith in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is a counter example, not for her promiscuity but for the nonchalance with which she evicted her lovers; the [[TheVamp female equivalent]] of a ''rake'' or ''cad''. Relevant since Xander, Faith's defining one-[[strike:night]]-hour stand and prompt discharge, serves as TheChick in the series [[FiveManBand team]].
** Buffy herself also qualifies, actively seeking to hook up early in season one, then falling in love with a 240-year-old vampire. She also frequently admonishes Willow to "seize the moment" by flirting with guys.
* Audrey Horne from ''TwinPeaks'' ''pretends'' to be this [[ManipulativeBastard in order to get what she wants]]. However, for what we get to know about Laura Palmer, she may have fit this trope before she was killed.
* Serena van der Woodsen on ''GossipGirl'' is an excellent example.
* Kaylee from ''{{Firefly}}''. She's pretty unambiguously meant to be [[NiceGuy the most good-natured person in the cast]], and she frequently serves as [[TheHeart the moral center]] of the crew of ''Serenity''. She's also not shy about casual sex, and was actually [[NakedFirstImpression in the middle of screwing the ship's previous engineer the first time she met Mal]].
* Blanche from ''TheGoldenGirls''. While she [[ReallyGetsAround really got around]] during her time on the show, it was well established that when she was married, she was completely faithful to her late husband.
* Amy Pond from ''Series/DoctorWho'' sort of fits this trope, having worked as a kissogram (bit like a stripper at a stag party but doesn't take clothes off) before traveling with the Doctor.
* Phoebe from ''{{Friends}}''.
* Robin from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is second only to Barney when it comes to the number of sexual partners. It helps that she is the only single female character in the main cast.
* Manny and Emma from ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' become this, Manny earlier than Emma. Though Manny starts to become sexual (even with other people's boyfriends) she still seems to have a perfect wisdom and maturity about her when dealing with Emma and later Darcy's problems. She also turns Jay into a good guy through the power of love.
* ''Series/AmericanDreams'' had Roxanne who was a family hour version of this trope while she only slept with two boys over the course of the show [[spoiler:and WordOfGod has her marrying the second]] she "made out" with just about anyone pretty freely. Roxanne also acted as more experienced mentor to the other girls on the show when it came to boys clothes and hair.
* Ruby in ''Series/OnceUponATime''.
* Penny from the ''Series/BigBangTheory'', especially when compared to her HollywoodDateless friends. Amy and Sheldon once did the math to figure out approximately how many men she slept with and came up with 30.96 sexual partners (they rounded up to 31).
** This actually becomes a major plot point in the fourth season cliffhanger when she wakes up in bed with Raj. She is utterly devastated and disappointed in herself, while Amy compares her to Catherine The Great (see Real Life). "She engaged in interspecies hanky-panky, and they still called her Great. I'm certain your reputation can survive shagging a little Indian boy."
* Isolde from ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' is clearly sleeping with Tristan despite there being no hint of a marriage between them. That, and she's a smuggler.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The title character of ''[[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tatayoung/sexynaughtybitchy.html Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me]]'' by Tata Young
* A ''very'' common StockCharacter in CountryMusic. [[SeenItAMillionTimes As in, an essay could be written analyzing her presence, subversions, and deconstructions.]] Usually, she will have a song [[SupportingProtagonist written about her]] by [[AudienceSurrogate a man who is fascinated with the dichotomy that is her life]]; the lines to watch for will be about will be about wild Saturday nights followed by pious Sunday mornings. If sexuality is openly discussed, it will usually be in terms of the EthicalSlut mentality, but she almost always does what she does with a pure-hearted ForHappiness mindset, thus hits both humanizing notes of the GoodBadGirl in the description above.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In the DungeonsAndDragons {{Mystara}} setting, the Immortal (Immortals being D&D's equivalent of AD&D's gods) Valerias, the Immortal of love, passion, and star-crossed lovers. She genuinely loves her mate Ixion, the Immortal of the sun and fire, but she still has periodic affairs. At the same time, Valerias is one of the good Immortals. To be fair, when you are so old that no one, including yourself and your fellow Immortals, remembers a time when you did not exist in your current form, and when you are at the same time eternally youthful and unchanging, fidelity is inevitably going to be more of a challenge than for ordinary mortals. Still, Valerias ReallyGetsAround.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Maureen from ''{{RENT}}''. "Ever since puberty, everybody's stared at me: boys, girls, I can't help it baby." Her current lover can't stand her flirtatious (if you ask Maureen) or slutty (if you ask Joanne) ways ("You were flirting with a woman ''in rubber''!"), leading to a combined IAmSong and a pretty epic breakup.
* Ado Annie from ''{{Oklahoma}}''. "I Cain't Say No" is her IAmSong.
* Petra from ''ALittleNightMusic''. There's a scene where TheIngenue Anne (virginal despite marriage) asks Petra if she's a virgin ("God forbid"), how old she was when it happened (16), and how disgusting it must have been ("Disgusting? It was more fun than the rolly-coaster at the fair").
* ''A Shot In The Dark'' has Josefa Lantenay, a good parlor maid who's bad at keeping her footing around men while not wearing panties. When the murder occurred in her bedchamber, she had been having affairs both with the victim and with the man of the house (but no others: "Josefa isn't really a whore - just bed-minded!"). When she's ultimately released from suspicion, she plans to go into a new line of work: striptease.
* Buffy in ''StarlightExpress''. She dresses like an old-fashioned pin-up girl and, in the 1980s London and Broadway productions, quickly establishes her promiscuity, but she has a sweet personality and no one criticizes her for her behavior.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Kelly Chambers of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' will show sexual interest in [[AnythingThatMoves anyone, regardless of gender or species]], but is pretty much a cheerful [[ThePollyanna Pollyanna]] otherwise.
* Leliana from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is a "repentant bad girl", meaning that she is a former FemmeFatale who [[HeelFaithTurn got religion]] and is now struggling between her wild nature and her newfound beliefs. If you choose to "harden" her, she will embrace her past once more but still stay the kind, caring individual she is.
* Pia, and potentially the player, in the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' module ADanceWithRogues manages to come across this way, despite the fact that we only ever hear about one past affair. Her willingness to jump into bed with the player helps.
* Shaundi in ''SaintsRow2'', although being a gang member she's therefore not [[VillainProtagonist particularly good by any objective standards]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Maytag of ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}}'' is this, shamelessly. She is described as a [[AnythingThatMoves nymphomaniac]], and part of the dramatic tension between her and [[spoiler:Bernadette]] is her unwillingness to settle down. [[spoiler:It's revealed that Bernadette already knew that Maytag was cheating on her but was willing to tolerate it as a "phase" of her life.]]
* Sam of ''Webcomic/TheSpaceBetween'' is a hard-partying girl who apparently sleeps around quite a bit, but her [[JustFriends best friend]] Jack doesn't seem to mind particularly, and his new roommate Frank thinks it's hot.
* Despite (because of?) her past as a stereotypically womanizing Frenchman, Petite of ''Webcomic/JetDream'' became extremely interested in men [[GenderBender after her sex change]].
* Brandi of ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie''.
* Zeetha, of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', is described as "an expert" on sexual matters, though [[TakeOurWordForIt we don't actually get to see any of her sex life onscreen]]. It helps when one of your main deities is a fertility goddess. ("Our holy days are ''fun''! (cha cha cha)")
* Shelley of ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' is just promiscuous enough to qualify.
--> "When I did bad things, it just made boys happy."
** Amy is a much better example, and [[ReallyGetsAround definitely promiscuous to qualify]]:
--> '''Amy:''' I've been around the block so many times, they named it after me.\\
'''Erin:''' Is...Is that a good thing?\\
'''Amy:''' If you've been given a tank, you don't park it outside a nunnery. You go to war.
* Miriam of ''Webcomic/OutThere''.
* Marina Flippo-Baret of the ''Webcomic/CiemWebcomicSeries'' becomes this briefly. The tragedies that befall her sisters lead them to border on this as well. In Miriam's case, it's a combination of this with post-traumatic embitterment disorder. Made worse by the fact that Miriam becomes a ManipulativeBitch in HighSchool ''just to survive''. In Candi's case, she acts a little like this around her preferred men due to SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny.
* The Drow of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' are generally pretty open about sexuality, but Ash'waren of the Sullisin'rune takes the cake as far as this trope goes. She's an EthicalSlut bar none, is implied to have hundreds of children and just as many lovers of [[EveryoneIsBi both sexes]], but she's also one of the kinder characters seen thus far.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Sara from WhateleyUniverse, alias Carmilla. In fact, she's got her own harem, practically.
* ''DeptHeavenApocrypha'' gives us Meria. She's [[RebelliousSpirit highly]] [[AxCrazy eccentric]] [[ChaoticNeutral as it is]], but [[BerserkButton other people's assumption that her number of past sexual partners makes her a slut REALLY pisses her off]].
** In fact, it's the thought that [[spoiler:Seth must think this way about her to have cheated on her]] as much as [[spoiler:the cheating itself]] that leads to [[ShowerOfAngst her]] [[RevengeBeforeReason eventual]] [[InterruptedSuicide breakdown]].
* Chakats from the ChakonaSpace setting. Also, many foxtaur vixens.
* If the first "Spooning With Spoony" was any indication, That Chick With The Goggles from Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.
* Seram from MSFhigh, full stop. Also, recently, Michelle's hidden tendencies for this have been getting into the open.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* BettyBoop
** In DrawnTogether, [[AnythingThatMoves Foxy Love]] is the moralist character aside from Xander.
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[[folder:Other]]
* [[http://www.okcupid.com/personality?type=RGSM&g=2&o=1 The Playstation.]]
* RealLife: Catharine the Great, besides being Russia's premier reformer (it's why she's called "The Great" after all), was also an unashamed DistaffCounterpart to TheCasanova, not even really bothering to show that she wasn't.
** [[WesternAnimation/CloneHigh "Or should I say, Catherine the So-so!"]]
* Another RealLife example could be Julia the Elder, daughter of EmperorAugustus of Rome: known for her quick wit and lovable personality (which made Augustus, MagnificentBastard that he is, to [[PapaWolf dote over her]]), she was involved in countless affairs that exploded into a scandal right smack when Augustus was implementing ethical reforms in the Empire. He was, unfortunately, quite harsh in his punishment and disowning of her. The LiveActionTV {{BBC}} production ''Series/IClaudius'' dealt with this conflict, accentuated by '''BrianBlessed's''' (portraying Augustus) bombastic lament of:
-->'''''[[ReallyGetsAround IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER??!!!]]'''''\\
[[CrowningMomentOfFunny *dead silence*]]
* Creator/AngelinaJolie has often been portrayed this way in the media, that is the tattooed, brother-kissing, blood-capsulating, oft-married, bi-sexual "wild child" in her twenties compared with the orphan-adopting, large-money donating, self-effacing foreign-ambassador pilot in her thirties.
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