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Bellatrix: It's so overdone and so Harry Potter it's definitely unusable.
Clove : Not a name to me.
Cora: I don't know why this is considered a bad-girl name. It's dull and heavy and frumpy.
Delilah: It has a pretty sound but it's a bit over the top. Plus in the US we all know about the obnoxious soft-rock radio call-in show hosted by the insufferably smarmy Delilah.
Drusilla: Ugly and witchy sound.
Jezebel: It's such a classic bad-girl name that not even fictional bad girls are given it. It's to theatrical even for fiction.
Lilith: Ugly sound, self-conscious Goth-girl handle, second only to Raven.
Livia: Yawn. The only thing remotely bad-girl about it is it was Tony Soprano's nasty, senile mother. Otherwise it's just a hipster's attempt to stick close to Olivia without using something so, gasp, POPULAR.
Lolita: Not even a grandma name here. Like Jezebel, it is now a common noun, describing a very young girl who behaves promiscuously and flirtatiously. Entirely inappropriate as a name.
Magenta: the character Magenta in the Rocky Horror Picture Show was mean as a snake. Otherwise it's a flaky, goofy color name, like something a third-grade girl might name her pink stuffed unicorn.
Nellie: Nellie Oleson in the Little House on the Prairie books and TV show was definitely bad, but not in the kind of "ooh, bad-ass! Grlll power! Rah rah!" way this article seems to define it. Nellie Oleson was just a brat. Nellie itself is a very homely, blah name.
Ravenna: Like I said in the post a few threads below, it's too Disney.
Salome: A stripper who asked for somebody's head as payment. Yeah, it's a bad-girl name but very over the top and obvious, and plus it'd be fun to pronounce it like salami.
Vesper: Kind of hipster "bad" I guess. Reminds me of a Vespa.