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When I'm good, I'm good, but when I'm bad I'm better.

— Mae West

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An editorial interpretation.

The boast plays on two meanings of being good: behaving properly and doing something well. The speaker claims both confidence and mischief, then gives bad behaviour the higher rating. That cheerful reversal makes the apparent confession sound more like a selling point.

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