Do bad things really happen? 

They say, whoever “they” may be, that a good question is one to which it is not easy to give a good answer. Are questions to which there is no good answer at all, then, even better questions? I am not sure.
To the question as to how bad things happen if God is good, there are at least two answers; and it might seem to some that neither is a good answer, for neither answer is comprehensive so as to represent the whole truth.
The first answer is that bad things do not actually happen. For all is well, that ends well. Shakespeare not only wrote that, but made it the title of a whole play he wrote; and I believe it makes sense to all of us. All is well that ends well.