[Grammar] affirmative form of need not have gone

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1. You need not have gone there

2. You need have gone there.(?)

3. You had needed to go there.(?)

I want to write affirmative form of 1st sentence. which is the correct form (2 or 3)
 

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Neither 2 nor 3. Is this homework?
 
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Neither 2 nor 3 is what I intended to convey.
 

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"You should have gone there", "It was necessary for you to go there".
 
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