I hear people say, I had/have went as in, ‘I had went to the movies the other night. Shouldn’t it be either I had gone or I went?
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It's always I have/had gone.
Have/had is the auxillary verb; and what follows that is supposed to be the past participle. Go has an irregular past participle of gone.
Went is the irregular past tense of go.
Regular English verbs have the same form of past and past participle, but not go.
Uneducated speakers might say I had went - you don't want to do this where you are expected to sound educated.
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I think you mean "some people who speak a non-standard variety of English". – Colin Fine Sep 10 '19 at 16:57