It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
On the roast mutton he had been served at an inn, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 284 (3 June 1784)
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.