 She continued to be really good and well-behaved, and she became a teacher and married a rich man, and then she used her newfound wealth to help other people who were similarly impoverished as children and do a lot of good works. But here's one of the linguistic twists. The goody in Goody Two-Shoes isn't really about being good necessarily. Do you remember the Scarlet Letter with Nathaniel Hawthorne? Yes, uh-huh.