I believe Sutekh was not widely considered evil per se until the Hyksos invasion. Egyptians wrote about their Hyksos overlords that they worshipped Sutekh in place of Osiris.
For instance, from here:
"Their god is said to have been Seth..."
- Siegfried Morenz, Egyptian Religion
"[The Hyksos king] Apophis took to him Sutekh [Seth] for lord and served not any god that was in the whole land save only Sutekh [Seth]."
- Papyrus Sallier, I, I, 2-3
In Egyptian mythology, Apophis was the name of an evil, monster, serpent god. [The last Hyksos king also known as Apophis or Apepi.]
"Here it may be assumed that Seth stands for the Syrian god 'Baal', because of all foreign deities Baal alone is designated in later Egyptian texts by Seth's animal (its species cannot be determined with certainly)."
- Siegfried Morenz, Egyptian Religion
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