He lives a 'goodly' [='considerable'] distance from his family.
We expect a 'goodly' [='good'] number of people to show up.
a 'goodly' sum
(..) of fortune that she sends you to prison hither? - Prison, my lord? - Denmark's a prison - Then is the world one - A goodly one... ...in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one of the worst - I think not so, my lord - Why then, 'tis none to you (..)2015 Hamlet
(..) ere I had ever seen that day, Horatio - How now, my lord, why look'st thou pale? - My father, methinks I see my father - Where? - In my mind's eye, Horatio I saw him once, he was a goodly king He was a man, take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again My lord, the queen your mother (..)2015 Hamlet