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My own feeling is that a bad person can be forgiven while an evil person is beyond redemption. Redemption and forgiveness is a big part of morality, especially Christian morality. Society is obliged to put effort into reconciling with the bad person, bringing them back into the fold. We are meant to hold this view because redemption is good for society.
Nevertheless, people do things that are so truly bad, society sees no way they could be forgiven. For these acts we feel that something spiritual, immense and intagible was at work and we call this evil because it's the only way we can comprehend that another person did what they did.
I don't like using the word 'evil' carelessly because I don't thing it helps society. If we call merely bad people evil we are, in a way, giving up on them and this will do us no good in the long run.
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