If bedtime got worse when you switched from a crib to a big bed, did it eventually get better? When?

After a long losing battle to keep C in her crib, we finally let her start sleeping in the big bed in her room by herself a few nights before her second birthday. First night she fell right asleep. Since then she plays with her baby dolls for a while, crawls all around the bed, crawls to the edge and sits with her legs dangling over... We go in a couple of times to lay her back down and eventually she falls asleep. No tears but it's taking her about an hour to finally go to sleep. But she seems to be sleeping better through the night and waking up a bit later which is good.

So if things got worse at first, how long did it take to go back to about normal?