D&D: Devils don't have to be evil
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If you want to create a non-evil drow, you only have to explain why they did not succumb to the pressures in drow society that will kill or corrupt a kind-hearted drow - rivals that will exploit that vulnerability, family that don't want them as a liability, and Lolth as the abusive matriarch who encourages the race's dysfunction. A good drow can exist, they're just unlikely to survive to adulthood.
A non-evil devil would depend on what exactly a devil is. If it's a damned soul that could be redeemed by the efforts of a good man, disavows any of its abilities that are inherently evil (like summoning more devils or spreading vile disease), and seeks to atone for the evil deeds that still scar it, then that's something that could also work as a one-off NPC.
I may be wrong but devil are a species, they are not damned souls. You can create, since it is D&D, some kind of pseudo-devil that was once a very evil human that brought destruction etc etc and then it was granted some important place in hell. You can work with that, somewhat, but even then it would be hard to find redemption, I mean hell is by definition evil and working with the forces of hell corrupts, it would be hard to make the redemption arc work without making seem forced or the arch-devils incompetent enough to have granted such a gift to a mortal soul.
I guess one could always go the "Hot Stuf" route, in which the devil tries to do evil, but he's such a total fuckup that his actions wind up causing net good instead.