Here's what I get at my unix prompt:

perl -e "print $ARGV[1];" ONE- TWO-
ARGV: Undefined variable.
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But, if I change to single quotes to make my shell happy:

perl -e 'print $ARGV[1];' ONE- TWO-
TWO-
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UPDATE: when I switch my shell from tcsh to bash, I can duplicate your result.