It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Source: About the roast mutton at an inn. Life of Johnson, (J. Boswell), Vol. IV
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.