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She does not say this. The word "wicked" does not appear in the play. She only uses the word "times" five times (all in III 2), and four of those have the meaning of "twenty times over". The only possible line which could answer your description is:

One half of me is yours, the other half yours,

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours. O, these naughty times

Put bars between the owners and their rights!

She is facetiously blaming the "times" for the effects of her love for Bassanio. "Naughty" has the connotation of being off-colour; these days, she says, things are so off-colour that there is confusion as to whose is whose.

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