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Is it OK to say, ‘She pleaded with her daughter to never go there’?

(K. Madhusudhan, Vizag)

No, it isn’t. In such constructions, careful users of the language would place the words ‘never’ and ‘not’ before the infinitive ‘to’ — not after it.

It is very dangerous. I promise never/not to do it again.

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