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Monotheism doesn't really work without the proposition that the one god is perfect. At least not from any kind of ontological framework that I'm aware of. This is a simplification because I don't remember my Acquinas super well, but I think it more or less goes:
If there are good things in the world, and good things come from God, then God must be that which is good, and the bad things are the things that are distinct of and away from God.
If God was not perfect, then God wouldn't be whole (because there would be good things that are not of God). If God isn't whole, then not all good things could come from God, and there isn't anywhere else they could come from (no other gods they could come from, this is monotheism), then they couldn't exist.
Of course, with the way I framed it you could poke a serious hole by asking "wait but if only the good things come from God then why are there bad things" to which I say "there's not really any substance that is, by itself, bad, but there are actions which are, and maybe you should go read Augustinian philosophy about this instead of hecks bear dot net"