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bad, originating from the fictional language Newspeak in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party of "Ingsoc" (English Socialism), whose aim was to make subversive thought ("thoughtcrime") and speech impossible. Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts—the words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language. Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, the only way to express the meaning of “bad” is through the word “ungood.”
It would be ungood and a thoughtcrime to attribute this word to West Coast surfers.
ungood by Literary redhead September 29, 2005
The opposite of Down Bad, where someone who is Up Good can either be a) not depressingly horny, b) depressingly wholesome, or c) very much anti horny.
Paul: Damn, look at her. Her ass is fat.
Tom: Dude, you’re down bad.
Sam: Tom, you’re so up good.
Up Good by JoseTheSpaceCrab December 2, 2020

cleans up good 

Usually refers to men. Especially men who don't pay much attention to their looks, in terms of grooming, hair and clothes.
However when they put some attention to it they look good.

Best example is Shaggy from Scooby-Doo. He always looks frumpy, stained, unshaven, slump, but you always

get the feeling that when he needs to escort Daphne Blake to her gf wedding Shaggy after a shave and a nice getup will look good.
Girl 1: Are you crazy you want me to go out with Jonah Hill, yuck
Girl 2: Sweety, he cleans up good and will make you look great on that red carpet
cleans up good by Tim E Wastin January 22, 2014
when something that really needs to be good is very far from being so
this situation is highly ungood
ungood by manivineet July 14, 2015

shut the fuck up good 

Everyone went silent because it was "shut the fuck up good."
shut the fuck up good by tvav February 14, 2020