Are as nothing to their badness when they’re bad.
This has been capped by a later rhymester, as follows:
Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they’re shrewd,
And the rudeness of their rudeness when they’re rude;
But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness,
Are as nothing to their goodness when they’re good.
Sarcastic
Written on a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, named Sheepshanks, who had spelt the Satires of Juvenal as Satyrs:
The Satyrs of old were Satyrs of note,
With the head of a man and the feet of a goat;