[1986]

In practice, "egregious" in English never means very good

[yakshaving_jgt]

This hasn't been my experience.

[itishappy]

It used to!

[spudlyo]

I think it used to just mean "singular", from the Latin grex, gregis meaning herd, and e/ex meaning "out of". It could mean singularly bad or singularly good I guess in English, but in Latin I think it had more of a connotation of exceptional, extraordinary, eminent.

[DonHopkins]

Literally. Oh wait, I mean not literally?