Jason Nahrung of "The Courier-Mail" praised the song, calling it "sombrely arranged but lyrically uplifting". A writer for "Blender" was negative towards the song, writing "Tori Amos for junior high crybabies? We wish. 'Good Enough' is a piano ballad so formless and maudlin we were shocked it made the last Evanescence album – and now it's a single. How bad? Too corny for Vanessa Carlton, too sophomoric for Jewel, too whispy for Enya." Rob Sheffield of "Rolling Stone" wrote that in the song Lee sounds "like a very average Middle American girl who yearns to be 'Good Enough' but who suffers from an above-average attraction to magnetic and destructive dudes." A writer for Sputnikmusic praised the softness of the song giving it a grade of 4.5. Although Jordan Reimer of "The Daily Princetonian" praised the song, he added that it couldn't match "the haunting beauty" of "My Immortal". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic found "Tori-isms" in the song.