Would “One very literally” be grammatically and / or historically correct?

I have an old British character from 1880 who says “One very literally cracked me open” when talking to someone. When he says that, He means he had his stomach torn open by someone else. Originally it was “One even quite literally cracked me open”, But I had another “Quite” used in the sentence used in a different way, So I wanted to remove the second. Would “One very literally“ be grammatically correct? And is there a better historically correct replacement for “Very” under this context?