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I have to think that Kikyo really is a good person deep inside. She was a well-liked and respected priestess in life and she spared Inuyasha's life when he first met her and went after the tama. It was Naraku who changed all that, turning them against each other and killing her. While it can be argued that the wish Kikyo wanted to make on the tama - to make Inuyasha human - was completely motivated by her own wish to be a normal woman, I believe she truly did love Inuyasha and really wanted to be with him without the constant threat of death at the hands of a youkai bent on possessing the Shikon no Tama.
The 'evil' Kikyo only came about after she was ressurected. She was essentially subsisting on hatred and vengence - the emotions she experienced right before her death. So - Yeah, she did do some questionable things - like try to take Inuyasha with her into hell and taking souls to keep herself alive, but I can't say that the REAL Kikyo was a bad person. Like most of the people in the series, she became what she was because of Naraku. Of course Urasue's ressurection of her as a clay figure didn't help too much. Just a thought, if Kikyo did recieve her entire soul back from Kagome, would she have been a different person?