Badmouth the job or take the reference and say it wasn't for me?

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I just left a job that I only had for 50 days. One of the main reasons I left is because they pretty much outright lied to me about my job responsibilities to get me on board and then hoped I wouldn't leave when the job was completely different now that I was hired. Another part of the reason I left is that they were VERY disorganized, and had basically just hit the complete reset button on the entire company, having fired over 50% of the team in between the time I signed my employment agreement and my start date, bringing in all new people. A little bit of it was personal reasons.

However, my boss is a very kind, talented, person, that I had worked with in the past, and I was a little nicer to her about why I left. She offered to give me a glowing recommendation wherever I go. Should I take her recommendation and not be as transparent about the disaster I walked into, or what?

If I am open about how bad it was there, it could hurt her client base drastically and prevent her from getting more business.