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A good anime adaptation faithfully recreates the original work in the animated format. A good anime adaptation is a good anime that has a similar story to the source work. A good anime adaptation is somewhere between those two, being faithful to the original story, but still working well in the new format.
An example of good anime adaptation and bad anime adaptation would be illusionary world/last episode in KyoAni's adaptation CLANNAD. It was a game mechanic awkwardly shoved into the anime format, and did not really make sense unless you played the game/read up on said mechanics.
An example of good anime adaptation and a bad anime adaptation would be omnibus format VN adaptations in general. They are not faithful to the original as the original split the stories off into separate routes, and often you have to compromise faithfulness to shove it into one story. Staying with CLANNAD, the blatant offenses against source work here were the skipping of a lot of content dealing with Kyou and Tomoyo due to the fact that it would be hard to fit in the single story line (and to KyoAni's credit, they did release Another World Kyou and Tomoyo OVA's to try and address this).
As a whole, CLANNAD is a great anime adaptation. KyoAni balanced well, creating a great anime alongside a great adaptation. So well that KEY kept waiting for a long time for KyoAni to do LB! before finally giving up.
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