One need not be too exacting to differentiate between what is moderate and what is morally neutral. First, we must define a good act as a moderate one, and an extreme act as excessive or too meager. Then we must qualify these definitions by pointing out that there is a need to commit an occasional good extreme act, and there is the time when the moderate response (standing by and scolding a rapist in the process of commencing to rape a woman rather than grabbing him, throwing him off of her and subduing him until the police arrive.) But, overall, the original defintions of good and evil apply most of the time.
If an act is good, it is one that is acted out without extremes; it is temperately executed. If an act is morally neutral, it has no ethical consequence (mowing the grass).
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