The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
Bad and Wrong
adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that is both badly designed and wrongly
executed. This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast
with, three less common terms ? Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but
functional); Good and Wrong (an overblown GUI or other attractive
nuisance); and (rare praise) Good and Right. These terms entered common use
at Durham c.1994 and may have been imported from elsewhere; they are also
in use at Oxford, and the emphatic form ?Evil and Bad and Wrong?
(abbreviated EBW) is reported from there. There are standard abbreviations:
they start with B&R, a typo for ?Bad and Wrong?. Consequently, B&W is
actually ?Bad and Right?, G&R = ?Good and Wrong?, and G&W = ?Good and Right
?. Compare evil and rude, Good Thing, Bad Thing.