How can I continue str.ljust() on a newline?

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I am printing out a lot of values using ljust like this:

for cog in bot.cogs:
    cogobj = bot.get_cog(cog)

    try:
        print('+' + '-' * 105 + '+')
        print('| ' + cogobj.qualified_name.upper())
        if cogobj.description:
            print('| ' + cogobj.description)
        print('+' + '-' * 105 + '+')
    except AttributeError:
        pass

    for c in cogobj.get_commands():
        print(f"• {c.name} {c.signature.replace('_', '')}".ljust(35, ' ') + f' {c.help}')
        if isinstance(c, commands.Group):
            for sc in c.commands:
                print(''.ljust(5, ' ') + f"▪ {sc.name} {sc.signature.replace('_', '')}".ljust(35, ' ') + f' {sc.help}')
    print('\n')

This will print out something like this

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| FUN
| Category with fun commands
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
• embed <title> <description>       Will send an embed with <title> and <description>, who's colour will change every 10 seconds
• channel                           Base command for creating or removing a lot of channels in a guild
     ▪ create <amount> <type> [name]     Will create <amount> of text or voice channels in guild
     ▪ remove <amount>                   Will remove <amount> of text and voice channels in a guild

But the problem is that sometimes when the c.help or cs.help is long, or when I use a \n character, it will jump into a new line making it look like this:

• eval <body>                       Will evaluate python code and discord.py code.
This means you can basically run any script anywhere anytime.
...

When I would like it to look like

• eval <body>                       Will evaluate python code and discord.py code.
                                    This means you can basically run any script anywhere anytime.

I have tried this with tabulate, but that creates a weird matrix looking table.

So I guess my question is, is there a way to set a max length of a string that automatically joins into a new line with the same ljust?

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