At ten years of age he was placed at a private school in Buckingham, and in January 1776 at the Thomas Palmer Bull's dissenting academy at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, where he remained until Christmas 1777.
At the end of March 1786 he became curate to William Romaine, then rector of the united parishes of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne, Blackfriars.
[2] On 2 July 1795 Goode was chosen secretary to the Society for the Relief of poor pious Clergymen of the Established Church residing in the Country.
He died after a lingering illness at Stockwell, Surrey, on 15 April 1816, and was buried in the rector's vault in St. Anne's, Blackfriars, near the remains of William Romaine, as he had requested.
Not long after he undertook for a while the revision of Robert Bowyer's edition of David Hume's History of England, issued in 1806, but found his eyesight was inadequate.
In June 1815 he completed a series of 156 essays on the Bible names of Christ, on which he had been engaged for 13 years, delivering them as lectures on Tuesday mornings at Blackfriars.
They were published as Essays on all the Scriptural Names and Titles of Christ, or the Economy of the Gospel Dispensation as exhibited in the Person, Character, and Offices of the Redeemer … To which is prefixed a memoir of the Author [by his son William], 6 vols.