Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde
/jek"euhl, jee"keuhl/
a person marked by dual personality, one aspect of which is good and the other bad.
[after the protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)]

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