in good time

English

At a suitable time.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
  Lear: I gave you all—
  Reagan: And in good time you gave it.
In time; before an appointed time; with time to spare.
- 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
  No visitors appeared to delay them, and they all three set off in good time for the pump-room.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 3, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  A taxicab took me round in good time for my appointment.

at a suitable time

before appointed time