bad girl

plural bad girls

1. slangA female criminal.
2. A woman whose rebellious nature makes her attractive.
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, girl.

   Dearest Mother: I have been a bad girl not to write you, or send you any money, or send the book to Aunt Susie, or anything.

   1923 May 30, Edna St. Vincent Millay, “To Mrs. Cora B[uzelle] Millay”, in Allan Ross Macdougall, editor, Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1952, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter V (New York—The Orient—Steepletop: 1923–1925), page 174