This article studies the norm-inflation phenomena of a periodic initial-value Good Boussinesq equation in low-regularity Sobolev spaces. Particularly, this article demonstrates that the initial-value problem is ill-posed in the periodic Sobolev spaces \(H^{-s}_p(0,2 \pi ) \times H^{-s-2}_p(0,2 \pi )\) for all \(s>1/2\) . Our proof is based on a constructive method: we provide smooth initial data that generates solutions with arbitrarily high-norms in \(H^{-s}_p(0,2 \pi ) \times H^{-s-2}_p(0,2 \pi )\) and for arbitrarily short times. The result is sharp in the sense that previous work (Cerpa and Rivas in J Evol Equ 18:1501–1519, 2018; Kishimoto in J Differ Equ 254:2393–2433, 2013) has shown well-posedness for periodic Sobolev indexes of the form \(H^{-s}_p(0,2 \pi ) \times H^{-s-2}_p(0,2 \pi )\) with \(s\le 1/2\) .