Quick selection tool - counture left when deleting

When I use the quick selection tool to remove something, I am always left with a shadow counture of the area that I want to get rid of. I guess I have to make another kind of setting or something, but I cannot find any that works.
Photoshop CS6 W7
Thanks in advance!
/Håkan

Hi everybody, thanks for your help.
I will try to find the "Refine edge dialog" (I have a swedish version, so I first have to find what it is called in swedish...:) )
I have enclosed a screen shot as requested. This is how I have done:
I made a selection on the picture
Cut and then paste in same picture in new layer.
Removed the shirt and the surrounding white background
And - left is only the arm BUT also the countours of the shirt...
Hope this can be solved by you!
Thanks in advance,
Håkan

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