Raising and lowering operators in quantum physics?

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Can anyone please explain why any term which is a product of 4 raising and lowering operators (eg. A- A+ A+ A-) with a lowering operator on the extreme right has zero expectation value in the ground state of a harmonic oscillator?
 
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