...and I think it also connotes the idea of fullness, completion, finality: man as creature-king of all creature-kings and their respective kingdoms...man as capstone and steward of creation...*then* it was all put in order and complete...thus *very* good.

But let's not forget that Eve was there too, and surely the mother of beauty, the primal source of all creaturely beauties, was a wonder to behold...so I think all these ideas are wrapped up in that one little added word *very*