Not a decent code or data sample, previously. Fixing the XML and running something like your code (neither the XML you posted nor the code cater for $type), I don't see the issue you have reported:

XML:

<actions>
    <emailNotification>
        <body>
            Good day,

            This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla

            bla bla

            Thank you.

            bla bla
            bla bla
        </body>
        <cc>x@y.com, z@y.com</cc>
    </emailNotification>
</actions>

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code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

use local::lib;
use XML::Smart;

my $XML = XML::Smart->new('junk.xml');

my $isconditional;
my $otherwise;
for (my $i=0; $i < 1000; $i++){
  
    last if ! exists ($XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body});
    my $body =  $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body}->content(
+);
    $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body} = $body;
    say '$body: ' . $body;
    say 'xml body: ' . $XML->{actions}{emailNotification}[$i]{body};
    say $XML->data;
}

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Output:

$body: 
            Good day,

            This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla

            bla bla

            Thank you.

            bla bla
            bla bla
        
xml body: 
            Good day,

            This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla

            bla bla

            Thank you.

            bla bla
            bla bla
        
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?meta name="GENERATOR" content="XML::Smart/1.78 Perl/5.042000 [linux]
+" ?>
<actions>
  <emailNotification>
    <body>
            Good day,

            This email is to inform you we did not receive bla bla

            bla bla

            Thank you.

            bla bla
            bla bla
        </body>
    <cc>x@y.com, z@y.com</cc>
  </emailNotification>
</actions>

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In reply to Re^3: XML::Smart how to prevent encoding <body> tag by marto
in thread XML::Smart how to prevent encoding <body> tag by zatlas1

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