Usually means: Virtuous person, often excessively so.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word goody two-shoes:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Goody Two-shoes: Merriam-Webster
  2. goody two-shoes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. goody two-shoes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. goody two-shoes, goody two-shoes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. goody two-shoes: Wiktionary
  6. goody two-shoes: Dictionary.com
  7. Goody Two-Shoes: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. Goody Two-Shoes: The Word Detective
  9. goody two-shoes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Goody Two-shoes: Merriam-Webster

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. goody two-shoes: A Word A Day
  2. goody two-shoes: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Goody Two-Shoes: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See goody-two-shoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Goody two-shoes)

noun:  Alternative form of goody two shoes [(derogatory) A goody-goody; a person who is exceptionally good and perhaps self-satisfied.]

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