"I am bad," she said-"there never was anybody much Badder-but I'm not going first.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
Then after a silence, "I suppose she wants to come Badder than anyone else, but-mother, do you think, do you really think I ought to invite her?"
"A Dear Little Girl at School"
Amy E. Blanchard
"I didn't seem able," you observed, "not to go on being Badder and Badder."
"The Passionate Friends"
Herbert George Wells