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Well, in my story, there are no Dark-based spells. There are artifacts that give the power of darkness to the user (at the cost of corrupting them). I guess also it can have the power to corrupt non-dark artifacts, like in a game I am playing, the antagonist corrupts a magical artifact and turns it into an evil version of it, infused with the power of darkness.Depends how you define your terms. 'Dark magic' is a popular term for magic that is sinister in nature, or sometimes just magic that's forbidden, so if you're taking this definition, it will most likely be inherently evil to some extent. But you could equally interpret it as magic relating to literal darkness, in which case it has plenty of room for morally-neutral use, so long as you can think what powers specifically those would be. Off the top of my head, you could use darkness to hide someone or something, or create a nice, relaxing place for someone to sleep, but I'm sure there's plenty more you could do.
When light magic is good, usual I tend to see it depicted as such just for being an opposite to dark, rather than anything inherently good about light. If you think of it about literal light, it's not difficult to think of evil uses for it, such as blinding people and so on.