更坏

zàn yáng shǐ hǎo rén gèng hǎo shǐ huài rén gèng huài

赞扬使好人更好，使坏人更坏。

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

tā běn lái kě néng huì gèng huài

它本来可能会更坏。

It could have been worse.